Production
Actual FBI cooperation makes this a weird time-capsule of institutional vanity.
Editing
Ruthless cuts between domestic drama and bomb defusal create unintentional comedy.
Acting
Jack Kelly treats every line like he's announcing the weather during an emergency.
Director
Leslie H. Martinson
Jack Kelly
Robert P. Cannon
Ray Danton
Fred Vitale
Andrew Duggan
Alan W. Nichols
Philip Carey
Inspector Leroy Gifford
William Reynolds
Special Agent Edward P. Fox
Peggy McCay
Deborah Cannon
Kathleen Crowley
Marian Nichols
Merry Anders
Grace McLean
Jack Cassidy
Walter Macklin
Pamela Austin
Messenger
Paul Comi
Special Agent Philip Vaccaro
Harp McGuire
FBI Agent Lee Redmond
Charles Cooper
Special Agent Bernard Lyons
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was J. Edgar Hoover's pet project—he personally approved scripts to burnish the Bureau's image during the Kennedy era.
Director Leslie H. Martinson later made the 1966 'Batman' movie, which explains the sudden tonal whiplash between scenes.
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